Community

May 8, 2012 -- 4:10PM, AVHer wrote:

Yes but you have to PAY to buff them, and they buff themselves and many times you can only do it once per turn on those creatures.  There are very few black cards that permanently buff without there being a drawback; especially when the buff is coming from a 3 cost Planeswalker.  The only notable black tribes that have buffers like that are vampires and zombies but they aren't mono black, lots of zombies are blue and many vampires are red.

The only red vampiresare from innistrad. 

May 8, 2012 -- 4:13PM, AVHer wrote:

Infinight is saying that if you were to CREATE an ability called Eyesight, what would you make the ability?  Make something up.  You are already making up the planeswalkers, so make up keywords and abilities for them too.

Create an ability yes, I never said to call it Eyesight, or even to name it. I wanted a mechanical representation of eyesight manipulation.

May 8, 2012 -- 4:16PM, quintongoe wrote:

May 8, 2012 -- 4:13PM, AVHer wrote:

Infinight is saying that if you were to CREATE an ability called Eyesight, what would you make the ability?  Make something up.  You are already making up the planeswalkers, so make up keywords and abilities for them too.

Would this work

Eyesight  -  Look at the top X cards of your opponents deck or your deck.

And this is you missing the point of your own card. You said that he uses magic to "infect" his enemies' eyesight, so why don't I see that here. This ability is about manipulating your OWN sight.

May 9, 2012 -- 3:43AM, DaytimeLantern wrote:

May 8, 2012 -- 5:07PM, infinight wrote:

May 8, 2012 -- 4:10PM, AVHer wrote:

Yes but you have to PAY to buff them, and they buff themselves and many times you can only do it once per turn on those creatures.  There are very few black cards that permanently buff without there being a drawback; especially when the buff is coming from a 3 cost Planeswalker.  The only notable black tribes that have buffers like that are vampires and zombies but they aren't mono black, lots of zombies are blue and many vampires are red.

The only red vampiresare from innistrad. 

Blood Tyrant . Garza Zol, Plague Queen .

I meant mono colored... not Bolas colored.

The only red vampiresare from innistrad.

And?  Just under half the vampire population is from the Innistrad block and about the other half from the Zendikar block.  My point was, the creatures in black that DO get permanent buffs, are already not mono black creatures.  In fact, one of the vampires that buffs IS , and another one is mono black but unless you are running a mono black deck, it hurts your own creatures, hense the drawback.

Create an ability yes, I never said to call it Eyesight, or even to name it. I wanted a mechanical representation of eyesight manipulation.

Did you even read my post?  I said, "... if you were to CREATE an ability called Eyesight, what would you make the ability?  Make something up.  You are already making up the planeswalkers, so make up keywords and abilities for them too."

If.  If you were to create and ability called eyesight.  I'm trying to get the gears turning in his head that he is free to make up whatever he wants, and call it whatever he wants. However, the card has to make sense and work within the color it is in or people are going to tear the ideas to shreds.

May 10, 2012 -- 6:03AM, AVHer wrote:

Did you even read my post?  I said, "... if you were to CREATE an ability called Eyesight, what would you make the ability?  Make something up.  You are already making up the planeswalkers, so make up keywords and abilities for them too."

If.  If you were to create and ability called eyesight.  I'm trying to get the gears turning in his head that he is free to make up whatever he wants, and call it whatever he wants. However, the card has to make sense and work within the color it is in or people are going to tear the ideas to shreds.

And that still isn't what I was trying to say. An ability called eyesight wouldn't get the flavor of the card across. The walker is supposed to "infect eyesight", so instead of mechanically representing sight, he needs to represent blindness. Chances are that eyesight and blindness would have very different effects.

Okay, you were looking for a specific ability relevant to the planeswalker he made and so in this, you are correct in saying I detracted from your point, however, you detracted from mine as well.  My point still stands.

If you were to create and ability called "blindness", or "unsight", or "herpderp" what would you do with it?  I'm still trying to get the gears turning in his head that he is free to make up whatever he wants, and call it whatever he wants. HOWEVER, the card has to make sense and work within the color it is in or people are going to tear the ideas to shreds.

If I make a Planeswalker called, "Derp, the Herp" and he was based in a set I created where there is an ability called "herpa da derpa der" then maybe my planeswalker should work around or work towards that ability.